> Then the upswing, when even the most fashionable users realised that desktop office suites would never die and would coexist with the cloud.

Libreoffice in combination with local ML/AI owns the future. Whats missing is to orchestrate an API for the vast and growing open source data science ecosystem to be more readily available to non-technical end-users.

When that happens it will be another "Sputnik moment" :-)